Two off-duty crew members of the National Sea Rescue Institute NSRI and two Mossel Bay Municipality MBM lifeguards reacted immediately after two local males were swept out to sea in Mossel Bay on Sunday morning, reports Cape town Etc .
According to NSRI , the two off-duty members were attending a local endurance event when they noticed two local males getting caught in rip currents and being swept out to see through the surf zone between De Bakke Santos and Dias Beach.
The two men, aged 63 and 19, were caught in rip currents during a baptism that it is believed they may have been attending.
The two NSRI rescue swimmers and two MBM lifeguards reached the casualties about 50 metres off-shore in the surf zone. Lifeguards free-dived underwater to recover the 19-year-old who had disappeared underwater, reported NSRI .
Together, the MBM lifeguards and the NSRI rescue swimmers brought both casualties out of the water, safely to the shoreline, where, once on the beach, medical treatment commenced for non-fatal drowning symptoms.
